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United Airlines to Deploy 11,000 iPads to Pilots as Electronic Flight Bags
Following Alaska Airlines and Delta Airlines' footsteps, United Airlines will roll out 11,000 iPads as EFBs to all United/Continental pilots. Distribution of iPads began earlier this month, and all pilots will have them by year end. (www.prnewswire.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Don't know what the exact status of below 10,000 feet is but I'm betting that for this purpose it'll be a Fait accompli. Continental hired a guy to work on this project in 2000. To much of the technology just wasn't there until now, screen resolution, battery life, size, memory, cost, system stability and the list goes on.
Don't know what the exact status of below 10,000 feet is but I'm betting that for this purpose it'll be a Fait accompli. Continental hired a guy to work on this project in 2000. To much of the technology just wasn't there until now, screen resolution, battery life, size, memory, cost, and the list goes on.
@Fred Groff. This was a program that was in the works at Continental before the merger was announced. Now that the program is ready to be implemented they are including United. Give credit where credit is due.
What UAL, Alaska and DAL are getting with the iPad is NOT approved for departures and approaches and must be turned off below 10,000 feet. How useful is that? Ok, it's a start...
American Airlines on the other hand, has full authority to use their iPads in all phases of flight as a result of 4 years hard work with the FAA. They are now working on approval of JeppFD with "ownship" geo-referencing. Probably a harder sell.
Why doesn't AA get credit like the whuffo's at UAL? Because AA's marketing and public relations are as bad as the vision the company shows to the market place. First Officer Hank Putek did all the work at American on behalf of pilots and they are light years ahead of the EFB testing at UAL, good on him. Replacing 40 pounds of charts with 2 pounds of electrons - no comparison.
American Airlines on the other hand, has full authority to use their iPads in all phases of flight as a result of 4 years hard work with the FAA. They are now working on approval of JeppFD with "ownship" geo-referencing. Probably a harder sell.
Why doesn't AA get credit like the whuffo's at UAL? Because AA's marketing and public relations are as bad as the vision the company shows to the market place. First Officer Hank Putek did all the work at American on behalf of pilots and they are light years ahead of the EFB testing at UAL, good on him. Replacing 40 pounds of charts with 2 pounds of electrons - no comparison.
They were looking at EFB when I was still working, FAA still mandated that there be a paper Flight Kit on board as ultimate backup. Everyone gets one so should have ample backup.
The i pad for charts are super!!!